Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xie Caile Dies as Result of Torture Suffered at Chengdu City Detention Centre

    Ms. Xie Caile, in her 30s, was from Xindu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. She was unlawfully sentenced to five years in prison in June 2003. Ms. Xie held a hunger strike at Chengdu City Detention Centre and was force-fed. One month later, although she could no longer be force-fed, the guards refused to release her. She passed away in October 2003.
  • "610 Office" Personnel of Chongqing City Beat and Force-Feed a Thirteen-year-old Girl

    Dafa practitioner Chen Si is only 13 years old. Her family all live their lives according to the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, yet because of this her family has been torn apart - Mother in a forced labour camp, Father in a brainwashing centre. Despite the trauma of the separation Chen Si has the courage to remain firm in her belief and to tell people how the authorities brutally mistreat practitioners. This young girl has now sadly also been a victim of the authorities' terrible abuse and has been barred from going to school.
  • Persecution Brings Endless Suffering to Wang Hongbin's Family and Causes His Tragic Death

    Wang Hongbin's family of three suffered continuous persecution. Their house was ransacked and property confiscated five times, and the couple was arrested six times. First, Wang's family life was shattered, then they were forced to become homeless, travelling from place to place to avoid persecution, and finally the family was totally ruined. Wang Hongbin was arrested, beaten up, tortured and sentenced to forced labour. On October 9th, 2003 he died at the age of 39 because of the torture he suffered. He left a wife and a 13-year-old son behind, who are in dire financial straits.
  • Savage Torture Suffered by Falun Dafa Practitioner in Gangtun Town

    Zhao said they had the word from the higher authorities: "Death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide." We were not allowed to eat on a regular schedule, and only had 10 minutes for each meal. We had to eat in a squatting or kneeling position. At one point they fed us for many days in a row with small potatoes that were bitter and tart, causing us to throw up right after we ate.
  • Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Ms. Duan Qingfang Dies as a Result of Torture

    During detention there, the police handcuffed them and paraded them in the streets in the rain to humiliate them. The police forced these practitioners to kneel on the ground at each place they went. If the practitioners refused to kneel, the police would kick them to the ground. In the evening, the police handcuffed Ms. Duan Qingfang outdoors in the rain. The torture lasted about a week before they were released.
  • Practitioners Forced to Package Contaminated "Sterile Chopsticks" in the Handan City First Detention Centre

    On January 16, 2003, the police guards brought us returned chopsticks that needed to be repacked. Once we opened the gunnysack, a foul odour came out of it, which made it hard for us to breathe. Those chopsticks had been packed, but due to the dirty and humid environment, they had become mildewed before they were shipped. Peeling off the moldy packaging made the conditions in the cell worse, as there were no sanitary equipment or procedures. Many people were allergic to it, with symptoms of a rash on their face and body that was too itchy not to scratch, but they could not stop working.
  • Letter to Officials from Wife of Song Youchun, a Practitioner from Hebei Province, Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Meanwhile, they said that they were unable to resuscitate Song Youchun after a sudden heart attack and stuck to their story that it was a natural death. They strictly blocked the news to the public. When we asked, "Why did you inform family members of the death at 8:30 a.m. on the 16th when Song Youchun died at 6:40 p.m. on the 15th? What did all the people in charge do during these 13 hours? Why didn't the detention centre notify the family members and the local government in time to arrange medical treatment with family attendance in there, and medical treatment outside the detention centre when Song Youchun was critically ill?
  • Masanjia Forced Labour Camp - Wrecking Lives and Destroying the Human Conscience (Part II)

    A female Falun Gong practitioner who survived life in Masanjia said, "In Masanjia, the most evil part is not the physical torture or humiliation -- people can easily tell that those are evil. The persecutors do not always use such overt tactics because they are also afraid (of being exposed, etc.), so they wait for the right time to do even worse things." "The most evil part is they use both persuasion and threats to destroy practitioners' minds and spirit.
  • Barbaric Treatment of Female Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

    The police utterly disregard laws when mistreating Falun Gong practitioners. Patrol chief Wang Yali and the head of the No. 8 prison area Zheng Jie declared publicly, "We are the law! We are the wicked police, and we are lawless!" The brigade leader Zhang Xiuli said, "This is a place where facts are distorted, and police officers can beat people." Then she said, "Who will know if nobody sees it?"...The brigade leader Zhang Chunhua told the criminals, "If you torture anyone to death, it will be regarded merely as a natural death."
  • Dafa Practitioners Tortured in Jilin Prison's "Correctional Hospital"

    Jilin Prison houses criminals with heavy sentences. The inmates there are mostly criminals charged with serious crimes, such as murder, arson, and robbery, etc. Their sentences generally range from 10 or more years to life imprisonment, even including death sentences. During the several years of persecution of innocent Falun Dafa practitioners, many male practitioners in Jilin Province were illegally sentenced and sent to Jilin Prison; their terms of imprisonment range from three to twenty years.
  • Persecution Facts of Falun Dafa Practitioners at Hubei Industrial College

    Zhang Huaping was a teacher in the college library....In November 2001, Nanhu police ransacked his home and harassed him again. In February 2002, they detained him for one month at the Nanhu Police Station. In 2002, some people on the Hubei Industrial College Committee changed Mr. Zhang's 2001 performance evaluation from "qualified" (which had been the assessment of the staff as well as the head of the library) to "unqualified." Consequently, his salary was suspended for one month and he was ineligible to apply for a technical post title for three years.
  • Jilin City Middle School Pupil Dismissed from School for Clarifying the Truth about Falun Gong

    On March 4th, 2004, a teacher who was deceived by the propaganda about Faun Gong reported her to the school board for clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to her classmates. As a result, Li Xinxin was dismissed from school. Her father Li Bailong did not understand why the school made such a decision. "My child told her classmates about Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance. What is wrong with that?" Li Xinxin is currently barred from going to school.
  • Liaoning Province Student Expelled from High School for Clarifying the Truth

    This hurt Wang Zhe and his family badly. Wang Zhe's father had a relapse of his heart condition. Wang Zhe's grandmother came from Shenyang despite a big snowstorm, and his grandfather, uncle and aunt were all extremely worried. All the students, their parents, and teachers have been talking about this matter and condemned the school leaders for making the wrong decision that hurt Wang Zhe and his family.
  • My Slave Labour Experience at Tuanhe Prisoner Dispatch Centre and Xin'an Forced Labour Camp in Beijing

    Female practitioners are forced to perform excessive physical labour. We were forced to unload trucks full of bagged materials weighing over 100 pounds each. We had to carry the bags on our shoulders from the truck to our cells. Other physical labours included digging pits, planting trees, and transporting fertilizers. The police exploited our labour to create illegal income for themselves. The dispatch centre did not compensate us for any of our work.
  • Guangdong Province Undergraduate Student Forced to Leave School and Sentenced to Jail for Thirteen Years

    Chen Nianqiang is now the party secretary of Guangdong Industry College. Since July 20, 1999, he has closely followed the Jiang Zemin regime in slandering and attacking Falun Dafa in staff meetings, and in playing a role to brainwash Falun Dafa practitioners. In particular, the party secretary of the Navigation College at the university, Zhong Pan, had forced 11 students in his college who were Falun Dafa practitioners to go through brainwashing so that he could gain political capital.